An anthropology blog celebrating the social nature of knowledge-production within the academy ... I write about anthropology and stuff.
'[T]here is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.It is the common humanity that creates the possibility of anthropology; it is the diversity of humanity that makes it necessary.’
~ Howard Morphy
'Simply to demonstrate that the character of reciprocity is contingent upon social distance - even if it could be demonstrated in an incontestable way - is not to traffic in ultimate explanation, nor yet to specify when exchanges will in fact take place...'
~ Marshall Sahlins
'Far more than we ordinarily suppose, economic relations rest on moral foundations.’
~ Raymond Firth
'Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.'
~ Virginia Woolf

…floating above Cincinnatti?
No, that’s the grounded understanding (fortunately or unfortunately)!
The non-grounded understanding pertains to my present attempt to understand the history of the modern theory of the State (as per the social contract put forth by the various theorists over time). Adrift! Adrift! heahha